Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1895 — An Egg That Holds Two Gallons. [ARTICLE]

An Egg That Holds Two Gallons.

One of the most interesting specimen* in the National Museum at Washington, D. C., is a cast of an egg of most gigantic size, which was found in a guano bed on the Island of Aladagascar, about twenty-five years ago. The shell of this egg will hold almost exactly two gallons of liquid, which would make is capacity equal to 14S averaged sized eggs laid by the common barnyard fowl. The bird which laid this mammoth egg is now extinct, and has been for probably 20 years. To the scientist—who knows it by Its bones and eggs—it is known as the epiornls, and its restored skeletons prove it to have been a bird at least twelve feet In height Arab sailors who visited Aladagascar centuries ago, when the epiornls was still living, are believed to have brought back the stories concerning It which finally developed Into the fabulous narratives of the roc.—St Louis Republic.